Hail in Silver City · Aug 19, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Silver City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Silver City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Silver City saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Silver City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 19, 2026 sits in Silver City's hail record.
This was Silver City's 13th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Aug 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Silver City at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Silver City: the same system put hail over 496 other tracked cities, 14 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Glenwood (70 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Elfrida (99 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Saint David (113 miles west, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Silver City storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
For this storm over Silver City, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Silver City roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Silver City hail history
Other storms in Silver City.
Estimated-size surface Aug 5, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 4, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 3, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 28, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 5, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface May 1, 2026
0.5"Take your next area into the field.
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